Van Halen will launch the new tour and album, A Different Kind of Truth, on February 7.

Newly-reunited rockers Van Halen have completed their comeback by performing at a small club in New York on Thursday night.

The band, which last performed in public together in 2008, has re-teamed with former frontman David Lee Roth for a 2012 tour and album, and they showed off the line-up with an intimate gig in Manhattan, just weeks before they are due to hit the road again.

The group performed in front of 250 people at Greenwich Village's Cafe Wha?, a small club which is owned by Lee Roth's uncle.

During the show, the singer admitted he was "more nervous about this gig than I ever would be in" Madison Square Garden.